Boise, ID, USA
Bright red light in sky moving very slow and at a random pace.
Report quality: Moderate63/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-18
- Where
- Boise, ID, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15:00
- Geo
- 43.614, -116.203 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-boise-id-2009-53e7b5
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Boise, ID in September 2009 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Boise, ID has 318 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 24 reports from Idaho.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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